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con·trib·ute

(kən-trĭb′yo͞ot)

v. con·trib·ut·ed, con·trib·ut·ing, con·trib·utes

v.tr.

1. To give or supply in common with others; give to a common fund or for a common purpose.

2. To submit for publication: contributed two stories to the summer issue.

v.intr.

1. To make a contribution: contributes to several charities.

2. To help bring about a result; act as a factor: Exercise contributes to better health.

3. To submit material for publication.

[Latin contribuere, contribūt-, to bring together : com-, com- + tribuere, to grant; see tribute.]

con·trib′u·tive adj.

con·trib′u·tive·ly adv.

con·trib′u·tor n.

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contributor

(kənˈtrɪbjʊtə)

1. (Journalism & Publishing) a person who contributes, esp one who writes for a newspaper or one who makes a donation to a cause, etc

2. something that is a factor in or is partly responsible for something: alcohol was a contributor to his death.

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Noun	1.	contributor - someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money subscriber bestower, conferrer, donor, giver, presenter - person who makes a gift of property
	2.	contributor - a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

contributor

noun

1. donor, supporter, patron, subscriber, backer, bestower, giver Redford is the institute's leading financial contributor and is active in fund-raising.

2. writer, correspondent, reporter, journalist, freelance, freelancer, journo (slang), hackette (derogatory) All of the pieces by the magazine's contributors appear anonymously.

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contributor

noun

1. A person who gives to a charity or cause:

benefactor, benefactress, donator, donor, giver.

2. A person who supports or champions an activity, cause, or institution, for example:

backer, benefactor, friend, patron, sponsor, supporter.

Informal: angel.

3. A person instrumental in the growth of something, especially in its early stages:

builder, creator, developer, pioneer.

Translations

مُتَبرِّع، مُساهِم

přispěvatel

bidragydermedvirkende årsag

colaborador contribuidor contribuyente donante

contributeur donateur

hozzájárulókülsõ munkatárs

gefandi; höfundur efnis

collaboratore contribuentecontributore

bidragsyter

bağışçıyardım eden kimse

投稿者捐助人

contributor

[kənˈtrɪbjʊtəʳ] N [of money] → persona f que contribuye; [of taxes] → contribuyente mf; (to journal) → colaborador(a) m/f

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contributor

[kənˈtrɪbjʊtə^r] n

(to newspaper) → collaborateur/trice m/f

(= donor) → donateur/trice m/f

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contributor

n (to magazine etc) → Mitarbeiter(in) m(f) (→ to an +dat); (of goods, money) → Spender(in) m(f); to be a contributor to a newspaper → für eine Zeitung schreiben; to be a contributor to an appeal → auf einen Appell hin etwas spenden

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

contributor

[kənˈtrɪbjʊtəʳ] n (of money) → donatore/trice; (to journal, newspaper) → collaboratore/trice

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contribute

(kənˈtribjut) verb

1. to give (money, help etc) along with others. Have you contributed (any money) to this charity?; I've been contributing (articles) to this paper for many years.

2. (with to) to help to cause to happen. His gambling contributed to his downfall.

ˌcontriˈbution (kon-) noun

1. the act of contributing.

2. something contributed, especially money. Would you like to make a contribution to this charity?

conˈtributor noun

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If the caligraphy be Poe's, it is different in all essential respects from all the many specimens known to us, and strongly resembles that of the writer of the heading and dating of the manuscript, both of which the contributor of the poem acknowledges to have been recently added.

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I had a room-mate that winter in Columbus who was already a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, and who read Browning as devotedly as I read Heine.

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He then was a resident of Richmond and a regular contributor to the "Southern Literary Messenger." It was not until a year later that the bride and her widowed mother followed him thither.

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Dashwood, who felt a natural desire to know who his new contributor might be.

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Then, with a more thoughtful eye, he ripped open the letter from his more distinguished contributor, which bore a postmark of Devonshire, and read as follows:

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Mark the successful man, the merchant prince with argosies on every sea, the employer of thousands of hands, the munificent contributor to public charities, the churchwarden, the member of parliament, and the generous patron of his relatives his self-approbation struggling with the instinctive sense of baseness in the money-hunter, the ignorant and greedy filcher of the labor of others, the seller of his own mind and manhood for luxuries and delicacies that he was too lowlived to enjoy, and for the society of people who made him feel his inferiority at every turn."

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I did not see the letter that Raffles wrote in reply, but in due course I heard the name of the mysterious contributor. He was said to be no other than Nipper Nasmyth himself.

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Nowhere are the ladies more assiduously courted; nowhere are they better appreciated as the contributors to our highest enjoyments; and nowhere are they more sensible of their power.

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It was just at this time, indeed, that Punch was published and Thackeray became one of the earliest contributors, and continued for ten years both to draw pictures and write papers for it.

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Steele himself wrote two-thirds of all the papers, but before proceeding far he accepted Addison's offer of assistance and later he occasionally called in other contributors.

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Bulstrode, who were to have votes in the ratio of their contributions, the Board itself filling up any vacancy in its numbers, and no mob of small contributors being admitted to a share of government.

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There were owners of lines of schooners, large contributors to the societies, and small men, their few craft pawned to the mastheads, with bankers and marine-insurance agents, captains of tugs and water-boats, riggers, fitters, lumpers, salters, boat-builders, and coopers, and all the mixed population of the water-front.